At the end of last year I took a memoir writing class. I wasn’t - and still am not - planning on writing a memoir, but I wanted to (a) get back to more creative writing which I loved when I was younger (and which I abandoned out of fear of sharing my work with anyone) and (b) to write more for my Arts Council funded project Everything Was Forever (Until It Ended) which deals with intergenerational trauma and collective memory through the lens of my own family’s history. As I’m slowly continuing to untangle the various story threads and trying to connect them into a semblance of a narrative, I figured I can share some of the writing I did for the project (which may or may not end up in the final version of it).
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